- “Archbishop of Canterbury resigns as crisis engulfs more senior clergy” – Victims have called on two bishops and an associate minister to follow the Archbishop in stepping down over their involvement in the abuse scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “How ‘woke’ Welby was undone” – The Archbishop of Canterbury started his tenure well but the secrets he brought to the job proved damaging, says Giles Fraser in the Telegraph.
- “The truth is, Welby was a weak Archbishop” – For Justin Welby’s own good, as well as for that of the Church, he is now going. He and we will be the happier for it, says Rev. George Pitcher in the Telegraph.
- “Welby is just a symptom of the Church’s wider malaise” – The ecclesial blob has lost its soul to management speak and wokery. It’s time the CofE returned to its parishioners, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Farming campaigners call for first-ever national strike” – The pressure group Enough is Enough wants to stop all produce from leaving farms for a week to protest against the Government’s anti-farming tax, reports the Times.
- “Britain needs its own Donald Trump. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson” – A polling expert reckons that if the former Top Gear host threw his hat into the political ring, it could be “Britain’s Trump moment” – and the Telegraph’s Michael Deacon agrees.
- “Tories ahead of Labour in poll after Badenoch becomes leader” – A survey by More In Common shows Conservatives on 29% of the Westminster vote, and Labour trailing on 27%. It is the highest rating for the Conservatives since February, says the National.
- “Migrant hotels will wipe out this generation of Labour MPs” – Connor Rand, Labour’s accidental MP for Altrincham, is discovering that “migrant hotels” are a political wrecking ball, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Britain employs record seven million foreign-born workers” – The number of U.K. staff born overseas has surged by 1.2 million since the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “The great flaw in the Human Rights Act” – The Human Rights Act invites judges to answer questions that they are ill-suited to answer, says Richard Ekins in the Spectator.
- “Antisemitism campaigners cancel protest after threats of ‘Amsterdam-style’ violence” – The Met Police are responding to fears of an “Amsterdam-style attack” on a now-cancelled protest against a pro-Palestinian United Nations official speaking in East London, according to MyLondon.
- “Islamic Sunday school teacher ‘saw it as her duty’ to spread jihad among children with cartoon book, court told” – A teenager gained a place at an Islamic Sunday school to teach her “extremist” beliefs to young children, reports the BBC.
- “Police officer arrested on suspicion of supporting Hamas” – A police constable has been arrested by counter-terror officers on suspicion of supporting Hamas, according to Sky News.
- “Sue Gray rejects new job after sacking by Starmer” – Sue Gray has rejected a new job offer from Keir Starmer after she quit as his Chief of Staff just weeks into his premiership, reports Sky News.
- “Shell defeats climate activists in emissions court battle” – Shell has won an appeal against a landmark climate ruling in the Netherlands that would have forced the oil and gas giant to radically cut back its greenhouse gas emissions, according to NPR.
- “Sadiq Khan plotted £2-per-mile charge to drive in London” – Leaked documents show that Sadiq Khan considered charging motorists up to £2-per-mile to drive in London, reports BirminghamLive.
- “Oil and gas a ‘gift from God’, Azerbaijan tells Starmer at COP29” – The COP29 summit was at risk of descending into shambles after the host hailed oil and gas as a “gift from God”, says the Mail.
- “Britain’s soaring reliance on foreign power exposes the great green energy scam” – At COP29, Britain has become a global case study in what not to do, writes Tony Lodge in the Telegraph.
- “Hitchin fire: firefighters remain at recycling site blaze” – An MP has called for a “national conversation” on lithium battery fires after a large blaze at a waste recycling site, reports the BBC.
- “Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on climate alarmists’ talking points: scaring people with misinfo will not get them behind climate policies” – On Substack, Hannes Sarv highlights recent comments by climate policy expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. who says humanity needs to consider the risks of climate change. But this shouldn’t be done through scaring people into believing in the end is nigh.
- “Pathologist found ‘clear cut’ pneumonia on one of Lucy Letby’s victims” – A pathologist who carried out a post-mortem examination on one of Lucy Letby’s victims found no evidence of air embolism and believed the most likely cause of death was pneumonia, reports the Telegraph.
- “Terminally ill can take their own life in three weeks, assisted dying Bill will say” – Terminally-ill people could end their lives within three weeks under a new assisted dying Bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two mothers who ‘refused quarantine’ after Dubai trip face prison” – Two women who refused to enter mandatory hotel quarantine during Covid, following a trip to Dubai, have lost their Supreme Court appeal against the regulation, reports the Mail.
- “Nature paper shows the Covid ‘vaccines’ increased your risk of getting Covid” – The CDC needs to warn people now that getting the Covid vaccine will decimate their IgA RBD antibodies which increases their risk of getting Covid, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
- “‘It was a military operation…’” – Dutch Deputy PM Fleur Agema and Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts have both confirmed that Covid containment measures were a “military operation”, driven by NATO orders and a global “biodefense” agenda, says the DemocracyManifest Substack.
- “Forming a square” – On their TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson describe how the architects of 2020’s Covid chaos are now desperately defending their decisions.
- “Gary Lineker was forced out as Match of the Day host, suggests BBC media editor” – The BBC’s Culture and Media Editor has suggested that Gary Lineker was forced out as host of MOTD after the broadcaster refused to offer him a new contract, reports the Telegraph.
- “How BBC fell out of love with Gary Lineker after Nazi Germany social media posts and mass walkout” – As the Match of the Day presenter became more outspoken, it put him in the crosshairs of his employers and made an exit inevitable, says Ben Rumsby in the Telegraph.
- “‘Gary Lineker can buy his own leaving present!’” – Adam Fleming, who presents the broadcaster’s Politics Live daytime magazine show, said on air that the outgoing Match of the Day presenter shouldn’t expect his colleagues to chip in for a leaving gift, reports the Mail.
- “The tragedy of Gary Lineker” – In Spiked, Tim Black charts how a great footballer and presenter became a risible figure in the culture war.
- “Farewell Gary Lineker, you won’t be missed” – Gary Lineker will doubtless continue to delight us. Still, at least the public won’t be forced to pay his salary, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Good riddance Gary Lineker – Britain’s chief pontificator” – Never meet your heroes, and never hear their political views either. Certainly, when it comes to Gary Lineker, writes Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “Anti-individual education” – On his Substack, Dr. David McGrogan dissects Bridget Phillipson’s recent speech in which she called for less emphasis on exams in schools and more on teaching children a “sense of belonging”.
- “German Economics Minister renews calls for widespread internet censorship, claims that an ‘axis of autocrats’ is using domestic ‘populists’ to poison democratic discourse via social media algorithms” – As they continue to lose elections and influence, our political elite will just get crazier and more dangerous, predicts Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Why Germany and Trump are crashing the euro” – Concerns about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Europe’s traditional growth engine are hurting the single currency, reports Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “China is heading for collapse. Xi Jinping has no exit strategy” – Beijing will be helpless to resist Donald Trump’s tariff war, says Gordon Chang in the Telegraph.
- “Meet the people of Trump World 2.0” – In the Free Press, River Page and Eli Lake run through who’s likely to be in a second MAGA administration.
- “Liberals panic as Trump eyes domination of Supreme Court” – Panicky Democrats are calling for Sonia Sotomayor, the 70 year-old liberal judge on the Supreme Court, to step down so she can be replaced before Donald Trump takes office with a Republican-majority Senate, reports the Times.
- “Donald Trump’s team could challenge UK’s deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Beijing-friendly Mauritius” – Fresh hopes have been raised that Donald Trump will oppose Britain’s surrender of the Chagos Islands as he lines up two critics of the deal to crucial positions, reports the Mail.
- “Oprah breaks silence on being paid $1 million to support Kamala’s campaign” – Oprah Winfrey has denied being paid $1million to help Kamala Harris by hosting a star-studded town hall event for the Vice President in September, says the Mail.
- “Awkward moment Donald Trump snubs Ivanka for Elon Musk” – An awkward moment in which Trump appears to snub his daughter, Ivanka, for his new best friend has been captured in a new video, according to the Mail.
- “America’s mainstream media tried to get Kamala Harris elected. Now it faces a reckoning” – Liberal bias is deeply embedded in America’s mainstream media. That’s a problem for the whole country, says Charles Lipson in the Telegraph.
- “From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the Left” – The tumult of social media and Right-wing propaganda has successfully cast progressives as one judgmental, ‘woke’ mass, writes Guardian columnist John Harris.
- “Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory” – Carole Cadwalladr is the Alex Jones of the Observer, says Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
- “The cruelty of campus cancel culture” – Oxford student Alexander Rogers was the victim of an unforgiving rush to judgement, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “‘My visit from police on Remembrance Sunday is living proof of our two-tier justice system’” – Allison Pearson in the Telegraph recounts a horrible experience on Remembrance Day in which two police officers turned up at her door, accusing her of committing a hate crime a year ago on X.
- “NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger” – NatWest has banned staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger on work devices, insisting on official channels to ensure messages are retrievable, reports the BBC.
- “Europe’s richest man sues Elon Musk’s X” – Europe’s richest man is suing Elon Musk’s social media network X, claiming the platform is using his newspapers’ content without paying for it, according to Le Monde.
- “‘Oh shhhhhhit!’” – On X, comedian Michael Spicer does an impression of a Labour minister questioned about his historic Trump tweets.
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The CIA from the 60s had journalists planted in every major newspaper across America. Of course, they still do.
They had made somewhat of an art form of getting rid of annoying Presidents, domestic and foreign, but 1963 was messy. Nixon needed to go. Watergate achieved that.
Nixon hated the clandestine hitmen of the CIA, and could only bring himself to talk about Kennedy’s assassination as ‘the Bay of Pigs thing’. E Howard Hunt was one of the burglars, a nasty piece of CIA work present at Dallas by coincidence, and claimed he was one of the assassins. These CIA operatives were doing Nixon’s dirty work. Apparently. So we are told.
Not sure I believe any of these ‘pat’ narratives anymore.
I remember the sheer mind melting complexity of it. The Byzantine impenetrability of the story/stories. It was a maze, a labyrinth. Not unlike crazy Covid narrative and how that was spun and is now being unspun for the unthinking by intelligence led MSM.
Bernstein and Woodward. Honest brokers? Who knows? Maybe it needs a lot more reevaluation. We were a lot more naive then.
Big events are planned / executed / and then managed. Spinning the story is done by managed journalists. We remember Nixon’s paranoia. We tend to forget Harold Wilson’s. Where did the paranoia go?
you would not call those people ‘journalists’, an actual ‘journalist’ is someone who seeks out what is really going on, and reports that truthfully – there has been pretty much zero of that the last few years – these people are hacks and propagandists and various other things decent people don’t really want to associate with
Strange but true, Nixon was America’s most popular president of all time!
Were they not lefties? If I’m right, they would be cheerleading the whole thing. Unless someone thinks they were interested in the truth for its own sake and not just so they could discredit a Republican?
If this is true: https://www.gbnews.com/news/whatsapp-could-soon-be-illegal-in-uk-warns-its-horrified-boss-it-s-a-bad-thing it could be exploited by the Gov to make it more difficult to learn the truth.
‘Where are the Bernsteins and Woodwards of COVID-19?’
A question I can answer.
Bullied, silenced, cancelled, fired.
Or willingly complicit.
I am not usually a fan of Dr Alexander’s ruminations on the current scene but I think this article is on the money.
By and large main stream journalists failed and badly. The net result has been a disaster for the country.
For those journalists who declined to do their jobs there is no way back, they will remain the whores of the Reset, not on their own certainly but definitely at the front of the pack alongside the irredeemable $cientists and medics.
The best book on Covid was actually written 183 years before Covid started. It’s by a Danish guy Hans Christian Anderson and was called “The Emperors New Clothes”.
It’s an analogy of a very real, and very deadly mind virus called Mass Psychosis. That illness allows large groups of people to become convinced that a delusion is actually real.
There’s also another book well worth reading called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, published in 1841 by Charles Mackay.
His most famous (and prescient quote) was:
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one”
Whitty and Vallance knew that the virus wasn’t serious for the vast majority. They knew it had low mortality rates and they knew who was at most risk. Whitty said the severity of the virus did not justify experimental authorisation for a “vaccine.”
Yet for 18 months or so, they stood at the No.10 podium, either silent as Johnson/Hancock/ Gove/Sunak lied to the nation. Or they opened their mouths, deployed their rigged stats, and lied themselves.
In what way are their reputations enhanced? They are culpable for wrecking the economy, killing and seriously injuring tens of thousands and ruining the lives of millions.
They should be charged with Malfeasance in Public Office.
Manslaughter would be more appropriate
The author seems to have overlooked John Tamny’s book “When Politicians Panicked” as well as Iain Davis’ “Pseudo-Pandemic” and Justin Hart’s book “Gone Viral”.
Seems to be a serious ivory tower problem here – there has been a boatload of (real) journalists critical of everything to do with the fake pandemic since the very beginning – the problem is not these journalists, the problem is the ‘mainstream media’, call it what you will, which only employs hacks/sellouts/etc (who do NOT deserve the appellation of ‘journalist’) who will write the corporate-party line. Bit surprised to see this nonsense in DS …
A notable example of a hastily written COVID book was NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s self-serving account, published on October 13, 2020, barely 6 months into the crisis. (link at https://a.co/d/6RvKaJt) It was as if the Captain of the Titanic had written a self-congratulatory book while his passengers were still in the lifeboats.